Version 1.2.2 released

17 June 2020 The Nim Team

The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.2.2, our first patch release for Nim 1.2.

Version 1.2.2 is a result of two months of work, and it contains 70 commits, fixing more than 30 reported issues.

This release doesn’t bring any new features compared to Nim 1.2.0. If you are still on Nim 1.0.x, and would like to know about new features available in Nim 1.2.x, check out our version 1.2.0 release article.

Installing Nim 1.2

New users

Check out if the package manager of your OS already ships version 1.2.2 or install it as described here.

Existing users

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 1.2.2 is as easy as:

$ choosenim update stable

Bugfixes

  • Fixed “Critical: 1 completed Future, multiple await: Only 1 await will be awakened (the last one)” (#13889)
  • Fixed ““distinct uint64” type corruption on 32-bit, when using {.borrow.} operators” (#13902)
  • Fixed “Regression: impossible to use typed pragmas with proc types” (#13909)
  • Fixed “openssl wrapper corrupts stack on OpenSSL 1.1.1f + Android” (#13903)
  • Fixed “add nimExe to nim dump” (#13876)
  • Fixed “simple ‘var openarray[char]’ assignment crash when the openarray source is a local string and using gc:arc” (#14003)
  • Fixed “Cant use expressions with when in type sections.” (#14007)
  • Fixed “Annoying warning: inherit from a more precise exception type like ValueError, IOError or OSError [InheritFromException]” (#14052)
  • Fixed “Incorrect escape sequence for example in jsffi library documentation” (#14110)
  • Fixed “macOS: dsymutil should not be called on static libraries” (#14132)
  • Fixed “Fix single match output” (#12920)
  • Fixed “algorithm.sortedByIt template corrupts tuple input under –gc:arc” (#14079)
  • Fixed “strformat: doc example fails” (#14054)
  • Fixed “Nim doc fail to run for nim 1.2.0 (nim 1.0.4 is ok)” (#13986)
  • Fixed “Exception when converting csize to clong” (#13698)
  • Fixed “[ARC] Segfault with cyclic references (?)” (#14159)
  • Fixed “cas is wrong for tcc” (#14151)
  • Fixed “Use -d:nimEmulateOverflowChecks by default?” (#14209)
  • Fixed “Invalid return value of openProcess is NULL rather than INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE(-1) in windows” (#14289)
  • Fixed “nim-gdb is missing from all released packages” (#13104)
  • Fixed “compiler error with inline async proc and pragma” (#13998)
  • Fixed “Linker error with closures” (#209)
  • Fixed “ARC codegen bug with inline iterators” (#14219)
  • Fixed “[ARC] implicit move on last use happening on non-last use” (#14269)
  • Fixed “Boehm GC does not scan thread-local storage” (#14364)
  • Fixed “RVO not exception safe” (#14126)
  • Fixed “ARC: unreliable setLen “ (#14495)
  • Fixed “lent is unsafe: after #14447 you can modify variables with “items” loop for sequences” (#14498)
  • Fixed “moveFile does not overwrite destination file” (#14057)
  • Fixed “var op = fn() wrongly gives warning ObservableStores with object of RootObj type” (#14514)
  • Fixed “wrapWords seems to ignore linebreaks when wrapping, leaving breaks in the wrong place” (#14579)